Salvador Rivas Martínez
Salvador Rivas Martínez (in bibliographic citations also: Salvador Rivas-Martinez) (born July 16, 1935 in Madrid ) is a biologist , pharmacist , botanist , mycologist , pteridologist , university teacher and Spanish mountaineer. He had been a member of the Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales since March 23, 1983 . Its botanical author abbreviation is " Rivas Mart. "
Education, profession and positions
Salvador Rivas Martínez received his PhD in pharmacy in 1961 .
In 1967 he obtained a degree in biology . He was Professor of Botany at the Pharmaceutical Faculty of the University of Barcelona . Salvador Rivas Martínez was appointed Full Professor of the Plant Biology II Department of the Pharmaceutical Faculty of the Complutense University of Madrid , which he was Director.
Besides, he was
- President of the Commission for Ecology and Nature Conservation,
- Director of the Real Jardín Botánico de Madrid ,
- Vice-Rector of the Complutense University of Madrid
- Member of the Committee on Vegetation Mapping , Endemic Flora , Bogs and Coastal Ecosystems of the Council of Europe
- President of the Spanish Society for Ecology and Biogeography
- Director of the Puna Ecosystem Study Project
- Vice President of the International Society for Phytosociology
Many plant species, types and subspecies and plant communities were described by Salvador Rivas Martínez and some named after him, as the genus Rivasmartinezia from the family of Apioideae , Armeria rivasmartinezii from the kind of thrift and Galeopsis rivasmartinezii of the genus Hollow tooth .
Awards
- 2005: Member of the International Association for Vegetation Science
In 2013 Salvador Rivas Martínez received the national prize of the Spanish Geographical Society, founded in 1997.
hobby
Salvador Rivas Martínez had been a mountaineer since he was 12 years old . In the 1960s he took part in a Spanish expedition to the great massifs of the world. In 1961 he climbed the 6768 m high Nevado Huascarán in the Andes . His companion Pedro Acuña died at this company. In 1968 he took part in an expedition to the Caucasus together with the Spanish mountaineers César Pérez de Tudela and Carlos Soria Fontán. In 1970 he climbed McKinley Peak in Alaska with Carlos Soria Fontán, Antonio Muñoz Repiso and others . In 1973 and 1975, Salvador Rivas Martínez was a participant in Spanish expeditions that tried to climb the 8,163 m high Manaslu . Salvador Rivas Martínez managed to penetrate up to an altitude of 8000 m.
Publications (selection)
- R. Tüxen , W. Böckelmann, S. Rivas Martinez, W. Wildpret de La Torre: The plant communities of the outer dyke of Neuwerk , 1957
- Salvador Rivas-Martínez: De plantis hispaniae, notulae, systematicae, chorologicae et ecologicae , 1976
- Salvador Rivas-Martínez: Observaciones syntaxonomiques sur quelques vegetations du Valais Suisse, Documents phytosociologiques , 1978
- Salvador Rivas-Martínez: Sobre la vegetación de la Serra da Estrela (Portugal) , 1981
- Salvador Rivas-Martínez: La erosión de los suelos de Andalucía: la cobertura vegetal y su importancia en los fenómenos erosivos , 1982
- Salvador Rivas-Martínez: Memoria del mapa de series de vegetación de España 1: 400,000 , ICONA. Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación, Madrid, 1987. ISBN 84-85496-25-6 online
- Salvador Rivas-Martinez, Daniel Sánchez-Mata, Manuel Costa: North american boreal and western temperate forest vegetation: Syntaxonomical synopsis on the potential natural plant communities of North America, II , Leon, Itinera Geobotanica 12: 5-316, 1999, online
- Javier Loidi (editor), Salvador Rivas-Martínez: Bioclimate and vegetation at the landscape level: a festschrift for Salvador Rivas-Martínez , Berlin; Stuttgart: Borntraeger, 2007
- Salvador Rivas-Martínez, Federico Fernández González, Javier Loidi Arregui, Mário Fernandes Lousã, Ángel Penas Merino: Sintaxonomical checklist of vascular plant communities of Spain and Portugal to association level , Itinera Geobotanica 14: 5-341, 2001, online
Web links
- Literature by and about Salvador Rivas Martínez in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author entry and list of the described plant names for Salvador Rivas Martínez at the IPNI
Individual evidence
- ↑ Literature by and about Salvador Rivas Martínez in the catalog of the German National Library
- ↑ a b c d e CV at www.jardincanario.org. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ↑ a b c Vita at the Real Academia de Ciencias. Retrieved October 30, 2018.
- ↑ http://iavs.org/Awards/Honorary-Members.aspx
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rivas Martínez, Salvador |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Rivas-Martinez, Salvador |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Spanish botanist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 16, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Madrid |